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Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:00 pm
by Dissension
Life would be pretty boring if people were always exactly the same. Predictability may be comfortable to some folks, but people do swap roles, so it's not like this is coming out of nowhere.

In the context of the comic, I like that Peanut was able to display a measure of skepticism with that amused attitude, which does seem to be more in keeping with his character.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:39 pm
by Sleet
Predictability is what killed newspaper comics. You can't just have one of your characters eat too much food again. Sometimes someone's gotta summon a giant spirit dragon.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:48 pm
by Alex
So wait, will this arc be about Grape and her Pridelands stuff or will it be about the secret santa thing? Or both?

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:06 pm
by Dissension
I see no reason why it would not contain elements of both, but I will not hazard a guess as to whether one will be more prominently featured.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:47 pm
by GameCobra
IT's no doubt going to be about Pridelands.

I'm just thinking somewhere in the comic though, Rick will throw us a teaser moment. probably right on christmas day.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:12 pm
by CaptainPea
Sleet wrote:Predictability is what killed newspaper comics. You can't just have one of your characters eat too much food again. Sometimes someone's gotta summon a giant spirit dragon.
This actually happened in Blondie just yesterday.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:03 pm
by Zander
CaptainPea wrote:
Sleet wrote:Predictability is what killed newspaper comics. You can't just have one of your characters eat too much food again. Sometimes someone's gotta summon a giant spirit dragon.
This actually happened in Blondie just yesterday.
No, yesterday his wife tried to get him to eat healthy.

I think when Grape sees the author she'll faint and by the time she wakes up she's gone.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:28 pm
by CaptainPea
Zander wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:
Sleet wrote:Predictability is what killed newspaper comics. You can't just have one of your characters eat too much food again. Sometimes someone's gotta summon a giant spirit dragon.
This actually happened in Blondie just yesterday.
No, yesterday his wife tried to get him to eat healthy.
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Also, I'm curious about the skull rising out of the DS... what is Peanut playing?

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:38 pm
by Sleet
Haha, that's awesome.

He was probably playing something like NSMB and he just died.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:47 pm
by Psykeout
anybody else find peanut and grape to be a little out of character this strip?

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:49 pm
by Sleet
Grape is definitely in character. Peanut is a little less excited than I would have expected him to be, but I'm not sure that really counts.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:51 pm
by Dissension
Weren't we just talking about how people aren't static and friends occasionally reverse roles in real life?

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:52 pm
by Blue Braixen
Sleet wrote:Grape is definitely in character. Peanut is a little less excited than I would have expected him to be, but I'm not sure that really counts.
You'd think that Peanut would be more excited for a new Pridelands book, since he went so crazy over the last one...

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:53 pm
by Psykeout
Dissension wrote:Weren't we just talking about how people aren't static and friends occasionally reverse roles in real life?
i get home at about six.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:32 pm
by mariomarc
Tha Housedog wrote:
Sleet wrote:Grape is definitely in character. Peanut is a little less excited than I would have expected him to be, but I'm not sure that really counts.
You'd think that Peanut would be more excited for a new Pridelands book, since he went so crazy over the last one...
I was thinking that as well, that's a little inconsistent.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:11 pm
by IceKitsune
mariomarc wrote:
Tha Housedog wrote:
Sleet wrote:Grape is definitely in character. Peanut is a little less excited than I would have expected him to be, but I'm not sure that really counts.
You'd think that Peanut would be more excited for a new Pridelands book, since he went so crazy over the last one...
I was thinking that as well, that's a little inconsistent.
Actually it does make sense since he doesn't want to meet his hero and has obligations to the club plus he'll get to read it anyway when Grape brings it home, possibly first since hes a really fast reader. Also we didn't see how he acted when he first heard that it was coming out so he might have calmed down a bit since then.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:14 pm
by CaptainPea
Dissension wrote:Weren't we just talking about how people aren't static and friends occasionally reverse roles in real life?
In real life dogs can't talk.
I think it works well for Grape, though, it makes her more interesting.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:20 pm
by Dissension
Are you trying to invalidate my statement because this is a comic?
rickgriffin wrote:If people actually pay attention to how others act, friends DO swap roles like that. I realized this while I was drawing the comic, and that when I've had Peanut express 'annoyance' before (like Grape would) it rang false, so I changed it to 'amused'.
Why should characters not act in a manner analogous to real life if their creator so desires?

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:25 pm
by CaptainPea
Dissension wrote: Why should characters not act in a manner analogous to real life if their creator so desires?
Doesn't bother me, I'm just pointing out that I don't worry about how the comic relates to real life.

I still can't get over the snow. I want some of it. :(

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:25 pm
by Psykeout
makes sense, i guess.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:04 pm
by Vespier Leo
Characters can change in responce to the will of there creator. Unless the creator developes an Authors complex, Then the characters tend to act of there own accord....

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:16 pm
by CaptainPea
Vespier Leo wrote:Characters can change in responce to the will of there creator. Unless the creator developes an Authors complex, Then the characters tend to act of there own accord....
Well yeah, characters change and shift. But you can also reveal a new side of the character without it being contradictory, too.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:54 pm
by Vespier Leo
True, but that limits the ability for plot twists. :D

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:40 am
by BunchaCrunch
It's like Peanut and Grape switched bodies or something.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:47 am
by Blue Braixen
BunchaCrunch wrote:It's like Peanut and Grape switched bodies or something.
Awkward.

I don't see the big deal...Peanut and Grape are meant to balance each other out...so if Grape is being too fangirlish, then Peanut has to calm her down a bit. That's how their chemistry works.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:12 am
by lightwolf21
Tha Housedog wrote: Awkward.

I don't see the big deal...Peanut and Grape are meant to balance each other out...so if Grape is being too fangirlish, then Peanut has to calm her down a bit. That's how their chemistry works.
That... -_- ...that actually makes sense. o_o

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:22 am
by Sinder
Peanut's original line was, "Uh-uh, fool. Step back."

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:23 am
by Dissension
It's true, I've seen it.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:05 am
by Alex
Tha Housedog wrote:Awkward.

I don't see the big deal...Peanut and Grape are meant to balance each other out...so if Grape is being too fangirlish, then Peanut has to calm her down a bit. That's how their chemistry works.
Yes, but it's usually Grape who calms Peanut down a bit.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:06 am
by Blue Braixen
Alex wrote:
Tha Housedog wrote:Awkward.

I don't see the big deal...Peanut and Grape are meant to balance each other out...so if Grape is being too fangirlish, then Peanut has to calm her down a bit. That's how their chemistry works.
Yes, but it's usually Grape who calms Peanut down a bit.
That's true, but in the end, Rick does what Rick wants.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:58 am
by Sleet
It's been reiterated several times, some of which by people who actually matter, that not every comic has to be a crazy guy and his voice of reason. Characters are allowed to be more complicated than that.

And an ATHF reference in Housepets! would have been weird. *giggles*

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:39 pm
by GameCobra
And then everything Grape says at the end of this arc ends up being true.

except she gets Cake and Coffee.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:51 pm
by CaptainPea
I've got the creeping sensation that tomorrow's comic will feature Peanut dancing around wearing a clown suit with Grape (wearing spectacles, a bowler hat, and a long coat) correcting him in a refined English accent just to spite us...
except that actually would be funny... :lol:

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:03 pm
by Vespier Leo
Amusing as that would be, Tis highly unlikely. Of corse I could be wrong. :D

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:13 pm
by D.Z.
I only JUST noticed that Peanut appears to have died horribly in-game in that last panel. Stop distracting a gamer, Grape!

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:04 am
by Private Elliot
Don't get it...

I mean, it can't be like that

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:05 am
by Sleet
Looks like she's probably a human after all. Or is she?!

God only knows what she wanted signed.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:07 am
by ChewyChewy
No fair hiding Grape in the third panel! :P She's never looked cuter!

Oh Rick, pushing the rating again, as usual.... :roll:

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:09 am
by Barkeron
Last panel. Lol.

Re: Arc 38: Hope of the Pridelands

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:09 am
by Private Elliot
Sleet wrote:Looks like she's probably a human after all. Or is she?!

God only knows what she wanted signed.
Except that God doesn't want to know. :?